Another mysterious message

[snow15145]

No: HPFGUIDX 165943



Neri snipped:

Harry *liked* his scar. Not his "green-bright" eyes, which are also
special, and not his black hair that he got from his father. The only
thing he liked about his own appearance was the scar, despite it being
a constant reminder of the accident in which he'd lost his parents.
Why? Perhaps because in his subconscious it was also connected with a
certain half-forgotten friend? The only friend he had in his early
childhood?

Note also that the Dursleys, although they certainly don't want to
take Harry with them to the zoo, refuse to let him stay alone in the
house. "And come back and find the house in ruins?" asks Petunia
rhetorically. She seems to think it was baby Harry who blew up his
parents' house on them. It was all his fault. But why would she think
such a thing? She knows about Voldemort, after all. Perhaps she blames
Harry because he had some destructive incidents of uncontrolled magic
in front of her? But Harry doesn't remember such destructive
incidents. He only remembers innocent things like flying to the
school's roof and growing his hair back overnight. He protests: "I
won't blow up the house" and doesn't recall any such incidents. Or
maybe he had "half forgotten" them too? 

And it seems that there was at least one really bad incident. And very
suspiciously, Dudley has forgotten about it too. But under the effect
of a dementor he recalls it, and it was the worst memory he had in his
life, something so bad he won't talk about it. Harry wonders what it
is, and JKR promised we'll find out, so you can bet it's important.
But what could terrorize Dudley so badly? Reminds you of a certain boy
who had a hobby terrorizing muggle children? Only if it was him again,
then he was terrorizing Dudley but *not* Harry. Well, of course he
wasn't – he was Harry's *friend*. 

Snow:

First off, I would like to commend you on an excellent synopsis of 
Harry's special friend. 

Now, if you don't mind, I would like to add to this paragraph and say 
that Harry's little friend was making a repeat performance in OOP 
only Harry didn't take notice. (Harry never questions this voice even 
when it becomes so noticeable that Harry talks to it)   

Harry returns to the Dursleys after witnessing his nemesis' bodily 
rebirth and one of the first things that Harry does is goad Dudley at 
the playground. Voldemort's rebirth seems to have had an affect on 
the connection in Harry by influencing Harry's special friend, for 
throughout the book Harry has had conversations with himself that 
began when he thinks his best buddies betrayed him.

Dumbledore won't look at Harry because he could see Voldemort lurking 
there  ... or is it Harry's special friend that makes that connection 
for Harry when Harry is at his most vulnerable? 

Why could Dumbledore see Voldemort lurking behind Harry's eyes (the 
window to the brain) and yet Snape even through Occlumency doesn't 
detect his old master? 

This connection becomes so strong that Harry's special friend becomes 
one with this evil counterpart in the bowels of a snake feeling all 
the sensations that Voldemort feels when they attack Arthur.

Dumbledore checks with his gadgets and is assured that a final 
connection has not been made between the special friend and Voldemort 
and they do remain separate at this point. It becomes clear to 
Dumbledore that the matter at hand needs to be further tested and see 
just how close to the surface this special friend is and how much 
influence he has on Harry. Along come Occlumency lessons that Harry 
feels are making himself more susceptible to Voldemort. 

Neri:

Oh, and there's another person who's very interested in Harry's half
forgotten years with the Dursleys. It's Snape. Instead of teaching
Harry some useful ways of blocking Voldemort he was spending all the
Occlumency lessons digging after Harry's "very early memories he had
not even realized he still had" (OotP, Ch. 26). What was so
interesting about these old memories? And yet, all Snape could dig up
was things like Dudley making Harry stand in the toilet, and that's
very strange in itself. Since when is Harry such a good Occlumens that
he can block Snape? Or was it someone else who blocked Snape? Someone
who unlike Harry is very good at Occlumency? Someone who was always
very good at making people forget? Someone who could hide the really
interesting memories without Snape or Harry even realizing that he 
did? 

Snow:

Although Snape has probed Harry's memories he still maintains there 
is nothing special about you Potter and Tom Riddle had a similar 
opinion when he told Harry in the Chamber that he knew he had to meet 
him if he could but determined that there was nothing special about 
Harry. This special friend does seem to possess special powers. It 
would answer why Snape or Diary Tom were unable to detect Harry's 
special friend or acknowledge any powers that this friend has. 

Neri:

Well, it looks like that someone has managed to fool Snape, because
only a few moths after the Occlumency lessons, in Spinner's End, Snape
mentions to Bella that in the beginning he had thought Harry might be
another Dark Lord, but now he's convinced Harry is useless. But I
think Snape wasn't realizing how much he was right about one thing:
Harry was indeed only saved by "more talented friends". There's that
word again. I suspect JKR had a very ironic smile on her face when she
wrote it.

Because if we accept all these clues, then we must conclude that that
someone *is* a friend of Harry. Not a very nice friend, perhaps – he
still has that nasty hobby of terrorizing muggle children – but the
point is that he doesn't terrorize Harry. He helps him. He seems to
like his current hiding place in the back of Harry's mind, a half
forgotten friend, and he wants to stay there. Perhaps he's very afraid
of what Harry would think of him if he ever finds out, and this is why
he decided to go underground when Harry grew up. He's mostly very
careful not to draw attention to himself, to his knowledge and powers.
But when Harry is in mortal danger, that someone would save him even
if it means destroying old parts of himself. Remember, when Harry
destroyed a Horcrux (and unlike the great Dumbledore without any
damage to himself) he did it "without thinking, without considering,
as though he had meant to do it all along" (CoS, 14). Or anyway, some
half forgotten friend in the back of Harry's mind had meant to do it,
if there would be need, and had also known *how* to do it. And you
know, a friend in need is a friend indeed. So I don't think there's
anything absurd about that "friend" paragraph in CoS. I think it's the
whole point.

Snow:

Placing a soul bit inside another living creature that can think for 
itself can be quite dangerous and ill-advised but then again when you 
don't know that you've placed it there...it can be quite hazardous to 
your health... 

Isn't it funny that the only part of the Prophecy Voldemort neglected 
to hear was the part that would have allowed him to realize that 
Harry is only equal to himself because he has a bit of Voldemort? 

And why does Dumbledore realize not to look at Harry, at Grimmald 
Place, even before he encounters the fact that looking at Harry 
reveals a lurking of Voldemort? Does Dumbledore know or suspect that 
Harry has a Horcrux-portion of Voldemort?

Snow